one of my favorite people uh... absolute
genius
uh... both as a as a as a programmers and here's a guy who didn't does media
radio television
and as an attorney and been political analyst mike haven't o'neill online as
attorneys seem part of eleven-count audio thomas mitchell rafferty in
proctor ph and host to ratify radio with robert kelly junior insincere
under fire
radio dot com is the website mike
uh... welcome active alumni aria his great-great daddy great eddie was
i was astounded
to read this story that you guys are going after right now about this
twenty four-year-old woman
who saw an ad
and said that's something i needed
and now is blind
though he has unfortunately is a big cash cow for the company bay
their figured out that even though there are times and tons of contraceptives on
that on the market
they wanted to get part of that
deal they wanted to carve out their own cash cow in so they came up with
something called yes
and here's what they spears what they told everybody time they said are than
our contraceptive is special we call it the magic pill we call it that special
kind of magic pill
in what it's supposed to do for you is if you have
premenstrual of problems and pay missile syndrome prompt than this is gonna this
is going to solve those problems worked
you have if you have uh... acne of any kind this is gonna solve your agni
problem the problem is when date when
they found out that when they tested their product he has
with uh... sugar pills just doesn't everyday common sugar pill called
placebo
that there was no difference between that sugar pill and yes now that didn't
stop him from doing it anyway they went out marketed this even though
even though tof
they knew that there was a six
polite three
increase risk of a person dying of a of of an embolism lovely young woman died
while new laws
the if you consider this it's six point three
by increase fall uh... for bramble isn't
this usually also assessed by three anyhow utilising went three times as a
six hundred and thirty percent increased probability of dialer rustic six-point
three-fold increase is what they found that this is a dutch study
they knew about the studies is not a factor three other studies that showed
similar kinds of problems similar kinds of
increase risk didn't stop the f_d_a_ from saying you can sell it anyways
matter fact today if you can imagine after hundreds of people
have died
after blunders of people been crippled a by all types of uh... strokes heart
attacks embolism you name it this has this this drug has the ability to do
that even though that's happening the pharmaceutical industry is so strong in
this country
that there's still may
about whether or not they need to do anything about his product based on the
market is still on the market matter fact tom right now it's the number once
in a best-selling contraceptive in america
uh... as we speak
uh... and they have all the information there there every day there's new
information coming out
about how bad this product is so the the story of chris over socks here uh...
this one actually
i mean he he he would
you would think dena pediatric nurse that she would understand
the the the consequence of any institute about that's about as inform the
consumers you can get any other she was
suckered in
financially saw that said that this would
juror acting and deal with a p_m_s_ problems 'cause she wanted to get
married should have the perfect wedding then
and they have been
and have all the stuff i control right into a restaurant as you get around that
the conduct of this company has been so bad that this company was operating
under what they call a corporate integrity agreement that is
where the government says we can't trust you anymore bear
we've we've looked at what you've done you've you've you've had to plead
two felonies we've paid incredible finds thirty three million
two hundred and fifty million dollars in fines in incensed part since our justice
system in this country
can go to the cooperation in arrest somebody in from in jail all we do is
find them
when they cause harm
and so what a company like just jess like bear does just like bear we see
time and time again if they do a computation they say look all we have to
do is get the drug on the market once they once we can get f_d_a_ approval
we know it's gonna be five or six years
no matter what they do to s filing us off everyday no matter what they do
we're gonna get five or six years worth of sales out of this product
now this is a company this elena product to the rate of about one point eight
billion dollars a year
so it's a pretty good risk for them personally i really don't really care
how many people to cripple or kill because when they do the numbers at the
end of the day they've made a lot of money this is like the old chevy side
saddle or the pen so or fair for that matter via ocs innocence is ample uh...
so
and and in the midst of this mike that until you know we've got
republicans
in their debate
that were last
the
the main
their the fair idea of creating jobs is to cut back on the regulations
tell me tell me how insane missus this is a great example of that the one where
the industry is already succeeded in cutting back on regulations tom what
they've done is they've made it
to wear it if you go to work for the f_d_a_
chances are at some point you gotta go to work for bear so it's a good old boy
system the people who allowed this to happen and as we speak
are still allowing it to happen u_s_a_ their committees
needing to can you imagine if you could
with that all the facts right
the dead people around the crippled people rent but the f_d_a_ says now what
we're gonna put together a committee and decide how long this is going to go on
you know why that happens
is because
bear
pass
is able make telephone call i called the billy bob telephone call
that's what they call billy bob who works for the f_d_a_ says you know
yeah i don't think this arnold thing these facts are right i don't think the
statistics are right i think the study is that could you let us keep the
product on the market and by the way billy bob
we may have a position for you when u leave but when you leave bear right and
then right now you're working for the f_d_a_ at sixty eight thousand bucks a
year and when you come to work for us it'll be a quarter-million the exact
that's exactly and that's exactly what we see virtually in every pharmaceutical
company
uh... with every one of these drugs that we've that we've talked about finding
things happening with uh... with the coal regulators in the coal industry
this year we saw this with the with the uh... with the the mighty salvi begins
the same thing with the oil in the oil industry the energy industry
now how do we break the how we stop this other than litigation and and and and
now you've got republicans run around with this for a for mantra which is
their way of saying awed by the way when companies do what what you've just
described
you can always do for a maximum of running about even if your debtor blind
given immunity voted for them perspective we have what we have on the
left mike yeah the clip the prospective is real quick a company that is
defending that the law firm is defending his company will make millions and
millions of dollars
but they're saying to the person who is killed or crippled sorry we can only pay
you a hundred fifty thousand dollars a two hundred thousand dollars even though
you're blind even though you're crippled even though your life has changed
so in such a dismal lake that's the republican idea of tort reform
it's incredible and and they were in not only other pushing it
aid uh... every single conservative guns on this program says this is you know in
order to solve america's problems we need to cut right para
and and and it's like republican voters are by hamas wasn't a great when
nobody's looking over your shoulder tom when you can just do whatever the hell
you want to do the visitors sociopathic most of us look at this and i are pretty
horrifying wouldn't do it anyway
riding exactly when idea that the average but most corporate array most
corporate uh... arrangements right now is set up to where the sociopath
actually thrives right and that's what republicans have bought into yeah and
and corporations are by definition sociopathic in that
you know they're they're charter requires them to do what's best for
profits not what's best for people
that's that's not virtually a you know the as important definition
payout my capitol hill
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